When I was aged 14 I asked for David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust album for one of my Christmas presents. It was already quite a few years old at the time, but a friend and I had decided to form a band and were plundering classic records for ideas (I forget what he was getting that Christmas, possibly a Who album). My mother had hidden Ziggy Stardust somewhere in the house and one December lunchti...

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Awards: Author: Neil Gaiman Narrator: Neil Gaiman Category: Fiction Publisher: Harper Audio Release Date: 2006 Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins Unabridged An Overview: Stardust begins in a small English town named Wall, located a night's drive away from London.

The Stardust Kid by J.M. DeMatteis and Mike Ploog. Boom! Studios, 2008. 12-year-old Cody has a good friend named Paul who is not the 13-year-old boy he appears to be. In fact, exactly what he is remains somewhat unclear, but let’s call him a “magical spirit” who has been Cody’s companion (in various forms) since Cody was born. What was just a fabulous friendship from Cody’s point of view...

Run from Swansea, the Dylan Thomas Prize for writers under 30 not only boasts a highly covetable cheque – at £60,000 – but local stardust in the shape of its "ambassador", Catherine Zeta-Jones.

Since Friday is Halloween, I decided it was a good time to read and review the newest from Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book. If you are a fan of his, don't wait for the review to read the book! I absolutely loved it and it was my favorite of his novels I've read so far. (Other than that one, those would be Neverwhere, Stardust, Anansi Boys, and Good Omens, the novel he co-wrote with Terry

Title: Coraline Author: Neil Gaiman Date Finished: Oct 19, 2008 #62 Pages: 161 Published: 2002 Rating: 4/5 What a deliciously creepy book! This was my last for the read-a-thon, and even when my eyes were growing increasingly droopy, I was still thoroughly frightened! This is my third Gaiman book this year, and though I liked Stardust better, I think this is Gaiman at his best. Coraline is the stor...

�Fragile Things� by Neil Gaiman Format: Paperback, 440 pages Published by Headline Review, 2006. Neil Gaiman need no introduction from me, rapidly becoming a bit of a national institution (probably the only form of institution you would want to become) thanks to the success of Hollywood movies like Stardust, Beowulf, Mirrormask and the  forthcoming Coraline. Of course this follows

Title: Midnight Never Come Author: Marie Brennan Publisher: Orbit Release Date: 1 May 2008 Review Copy: It’s probably wrong to compare the film Stardust to Midnight Never Come but it might be a good shorthand to the mix of magic and reality that’s combined with a love story which at the heart of this tale. And I have feeling that

Peter Pan flew across Kensington Gardens, Joseph Conrad was inspired to write The Secret Agent by a bomb plot in Greenwich Park and Henry James's characters held many an exquisitely nuanced conversation strolling through them. Now a group of contemporary authors including Will Self, Ali Smith and William Boyd are set to sprinkle a little more literary stardust on London's eight royal par...

Article by Kari Maaren. Neil Gaiman has been popping into view quite a lot recently. His twisted children’s tale Coraline is making it to the big screen this Friday; in the last few years, he has published another children’s novel, The Graveyard Book (2008), seen his book Stardust become a film (2007), co-written the screenplays for